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VANCOUVER – The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes criminal charges against Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit Construction) in the death of 24-year old Sam Fitzpatrick, who was killed on a Kiewit Construction site at Toba Inlet, B.C., in 2009. Kiewit and two supervisors, Gerald Karjala and Timothy Rule, each face one count under Section 220(b) of the […]
TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes today’s agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico to lift U.S. tariffs on aluminum and steel, but urges the Canadian government to impose critical measures needed to defend Canada’s steel sector against import surges and unfair trade practices. “We have fought the U.S. tariffs non-stop for close […]
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Young Workers Program and United Way Centraide Canada (UWCC) are pleased to present the annual CLC/UWCC Post-Secondary Scholarship. The CLC and the UWCC are long-time partners in taking action to create prosperous, inclusive, diverse and respectful communities, safer workplaces, and a fairer Canada for working people. We recognize that post-secondary education […]
In the early morning of May 9, 1992, an explosion ripped through the Westray coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all twenty-six miners working the night shift. This explosion not only took the lives of those twenty-six men but it changed the lives, forever, of so many more. Families, friends, co-workers and the communities […]
TORONTO, 7 May 2019 – The Canadian Football League Players’ Association (CFLPA) and the United Steelworkers (USW) today announced a ‘strategic alliance’ that will build a closer unity of purpose between the two associations. In a demonstration of solidarity, USW National Director for Canada, Ken Neumann joined the CFLPA Bargaining Committee during the most recent […]
OTTAWA – Rank-and-file members of the United Steelworkers (USW) from across Canada are back on Parliament Hill for two weeks to meet with MPs and senators and ask for a commitment to put protection for retired workers on the platform of every political party in the 2019 election. online pharmacy https://www.delawarehealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/6.html no prescription pharmacy “Despite […]
OTTAWA – The failure of Justin Trudeau’s government to protect Canada’s steel sector against cheap, subsidized foreign imports threatens thousands of Canadian families and their communities, the United Steelworkers (USW) union says. “This government must not abandon Canadian workers and communities in their hour of need,” said USW National Director Ken Neumann. “Thousands of jobs […]
VANCOUVER, April 11, 2019 – The United Steelworkers (USW) is welcoming today’s announcement by the Government of British Columbia that Vancouver lawyer Lisa Helps has been retained to assess the actions WorkSafeBC in relation to sawmill explosions at Babine Forest Products and Lakeland Mills. The explosions in 2012 killed four workers and injured dozens more […]
VANCOUVER – At the United Steelworkers (USW) National Policy Conference in Vancouver, union leaders from across Quebec, Canada and North America have announced a global campaign to support locked-out workers at the ABI aluminum smelter in Bécancour, Que. More than 1,000 workers at the ABI smelter, co-owned by multinationals Alcoa (75% stake) and Rio Tinto […]
OTTAWA – Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has only weeks to make steel safeguards final and ward off the decimation of thousands of Canadian jobs, the United Steelworkers (USW) union says. “If existing safeguards are not finalized, a surge of foreign imports will devastate Canada’s steel industry and communities across the country,” USW National Director […]
VANCOUVER – Beginning on Tuesday, April 2, in Vancouver, the United Steelworkers union (USW) will hold its triennial National Policy Conference. Speaking and presenting to USW members will be a number of well-known Canadian political leaders, international labour leaders and social justice activists. Conference delegates will debate and make decisions on issues affecting Steelworkers and […]
OTTAWA – Following compelling evidence presented by United Steelworkers (USW) members on the impact of foreign steel dumping, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) is imposing significant duties on certain exports from China, India, South Korea and Taiwan. The CITT has ruled that the continued dumping of corrosion-resistant steel products from the four Asian countries poses […]
OTTAWA – The United Steelworkers union (USW) welcomes a Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) ruling that Canada’s steel industry has been harmed by illegal dumping of steel pipe by Vietnam, Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines. The CITT ruling follows a complaint by Montreal-based pipe manufacturer Nova Tube and testimony delivered by USW members during hearings […]
SUDBURY – The United Steelworkers (USW) is denouncing a plea agreement in an Ontario court that imposes a fine against a concrete manufacturer for a worker’s death, while dismissing a criminal charge against the company’s owner. “Abandoning the criminal prosecution of a company’s owner in exchange for a $1,000 fine against the company and a […]
The Canadian economy saw improvements in 2016, in comparison to 2015, growing at 1.4%, but well behind its 2.6% average growth in 2013-2014. In 2017, economic growth exploded to 3%, only to slow down in 2018 to 2%. During this period, the unemployment rate declined from 7.2% in January of 2016 to 5.6% in December […]
OTTAWA – Ken Neumann, National Director of the United Steelworkers union (USW) said today that, with no sign of U.S. steel tariffs ending anytime soon, the federal government must continue safeguard measures on several categories of foreign steel imports, which surged throughout much of 2018. online pharmacy buy cozaar online no prescription pharmacy “Our members […]
TORONTO – CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and United Steelworkers (USW) announced today that a new tentative collective agreement has been reached between USW Local 2004 and CN. USW represents approximately 3,000 track and bridge personnel who work at CN across Canada. “We are pleased to conclude yet another negotiation,” said JJ Ruest, president and […]